Mississippi Moonshine Politics

Mississippi Moonshine Politics
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 9781625852885
ISBN-13 : 1625852886
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Book Synopsis Mississippi Moonshine Politics by : Janice Branch Tracy

Download or read book Mississippi Moonshine Politics written by Janice Branch Tracy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mississippi historian chronicles the rise and fall of The Magnolia State’s moonshine empire in this revealing true crime history. For most states, the repeal of prohibition meant a return to legally drunken normalcy, but not so in Mississippi. The state had gone dry more than a decade before the rest of the nation. In that time, a lucrative black market for moonshine and bonded liquor became a way of life for many Mississippians. By the time Prohibition was lifted, bootleggers and state politicians were unwilling to give up their hold on the sale of alcohol. For nearly sixty years, Mississippi was known as the "wettest dry state in the country." Until statewide prohibition was finally repealed in 1966, illegal booze fueled a corrupt political machine that intimidated journalists who dared to speak against it and fixed juries that threatened its interests. Author and native Mississippian Janice Branch Tracy offers an intimate and authoritative look inside Mississippi Moonshine Politics.


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